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- Nov 07, 2020
History Quotes
Personal history and the record we leave.
Quotes about "history" here move between the personal and the public — early museum visits that shaped a scientific mindset, and a family history full of preachers and former priests. For enduring, timeless sayings, see Long quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Irish history having been forbidden in schools, has been, to a great extent, learned from Raftery's poems by the people of Mayo, where he was born, and of Galway, where he spent his later years.
- Creativity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not just looking to be famous and attach myself to famous names. I want to make history in the business in terms of creativity.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, songs often have a very coloured past. They might have something about them but it still doesn't work, so someone else adds a bit, and someone else adds a bit so perhaps one day I'll know its full history.
- Humble
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Pittsburgh because it's a humble city. It's really grounded in its rich history and culture.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad had a huge movie collection. So we all had a good sense of entertainment history. I was a Jack Lemmon fan more than most people from my generation.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never in the history of 'The Shield' was the word 'LAPD' ever mentioned. We would mention districts, like Wilshire and Hollenbeck and Marina, but Farmington was a fictitious district, and we never actually uttered the word 'LAPD.' So that was sort of the deal we made with them.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here's the deal with 'Bastard.' I loved that show, and for me, it was such a palate cleanser, going from writing urban vernacular and crime to, essentially, iambic pentameter. I loved the mythology of that world based on history, but what it came down to was money.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't read a lot of fiction, but one of my favorite authors is William Kennedy; his books, to me, almost read like historical dramas because the mythologies are so detailed as he wove fiction with the factual history of Albany.
- Comparable
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mrs Thatcher not only made history by becoming Britain’s first female prime minister, she was the first woman to hold any comparable position in the western world.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is of all subjects the one which is most engaged with people’s perceptions of themselves, identity, politics, all those things which shape the modern world.
- Right
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bottom-line message of history is that if you're doubling and tripling your money in record time, you're also more likely to lose it all.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I had all the qualities that the newspapers are talking about, I'd be the best player in history.
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- Nov 07, 2020